> While the robustness principle is indeed a good start, this is a > situation where we are mostly starting with a clean slate. No reason > to > muddy the waters without having actual problems in the wild, or else > it's the tag soup situation all again (clients try to guess based on > incorrect information and you end up with stupid switches).
There have been actual problems: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2643447/html5-video-mp4-and-ogv-problems-in-safari-and-firefox-but-chrome-is-all-good/2644341 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2964193/html5-video-problem/2964458 http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20100619#l-136 http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090807#l-795 http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20100520#l-355 http://twitter.com/hsivonen/status/14837369592 -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
